Exegeting Your Audience

Knowing Your Audience

Knowing Your Audience

• Graham Johnston "Preaching in a Postmodern World"
• "emphasizing the need to take advantage of all the elements
• within any given speaking situation so that your audience, to the
• greatest extent as possible, will be able to comprehend and be
• willing to act upon you ideas."

Knowing Your Audience

• Do not assume level of knowledge
• I Cor. 9:20-22

Maturity of Your Audience

• How spiritually mature is your congregation?
• 1 Cor. 3:1-3

Knowledge of Your Audience

• How well does your congregation know the Bible
• and theology?

Culture of Your Audience

• Socioeconomic data will prove beneficial
• What is their cultural background?
• The Army culture and acronyms.

Other considerations

• size of audience
• youth group vs seniors
• Gender

Be willing to Adjust

• Are you a flexible person?
• Can you change?
• Style - characteristic manner of expressing his thoughts...
• over 50
• Keep the audience in mind as you prepare.